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Meet Kaia. Take Control of Your Air.
We built Kaia, a wifi-connected air quality sensor that tracks the air you’re breathing. With the help of powerful analytics, specific suggestions and automated solutions, Kaia can improve your Air Quality of Life.
What People Are Saying
Air Quality is Five Times Worse Indoors
Indoor air quality is on average five times worse than the air outside. We acclimate to a lower quality of life from breathing in microscopic particles that cause respiratory issues and enter the bloodstream through the lungs. Once in the bloodstream, harmful particles can make it to the brain and nervous system, causing inflammation, stunted development, and a shorter life.
The quality of the air we breathe directly impacts our sleep, focus, energy levels, and respiratory system, yet symptoms build up so gradually that we become used to living with the invisible particles in our air - pollutants that make us sick.
Waking up congested or with a sore throat every morning shouldn't be the norm.
Kaia is an air sensor that is unapologetically visible. It can show changes in air quality across the room as well as act as a striking conversation piece.
Kaia Learns Senses Advises Acts
Ongoing data collection matched up to live local and global air quality information allows Kaia to provide remarkably relevant remediations, detect and present trends, and link with the smart devices in your home, all with the goal of improving your quality of life.
A Beautiful Powerful Message
Kaia tracks indoor and outdoor air quality and changes color to display the quality of air you are breathing. The Kaia app will show you exactly how much you can't see. Kaia tracks invisible allergens, irritants, and air pollutants (microscopic particles <2.5 microns in diameter).
Kaia automatically analyzes the air in your home and makes the invisible, visible. Through real-time and historical analytics, Kaia can provide you with personal and practical solutions that improve your indoor environment.
Dynamic Data. Relevant Recommendations.
- Poor air quality alerts for particle count and mold risk
- Personalized immediate and actionable recommendations
- Daily outdoor air quality forecasts for pollen, dust, and mold
- Your home's indoor air trends and goals
- Long term fixes and tips
- Product reviews to buy smarter
- Insightful air quality news and data around the world
Brains Are Beautiful Too.
Kaia's Air Analytics Engine takes 3 factors into account to crunch through its algorithms.
- Indoor air quality using its onboard sensors
- Outdoor air quality using public data
- Your profile
The data Kaia generates is easily exportable in its raw format. We hope to provide not only a platform with built in intelligent solutions, but a readily available powerful sensor for the Quantified Self community to create things we haven't even imagined yet.
Other Features
Kaia pairs naturally with IFTTT recipes. When changes in air quality happen, the connected devices in your home can take care of them. Setup is easy.
Select The Kaia That Fits You.
Rewards
Air Quality Matters. Please Support Us.
We created Kaia to improve quality of life. Our desire was to create a beautiful tool that can be used to understand air quality and help fix it. We are fascinated by driving awareness of your personal and local air and air around the globe. Additionally, we are committed to partnering with manufacturers that engage in fair labor practices and a product that is as sustainable as possible.
With your pledges, we will be able to take Kaia into the production phase.
How We Got Here
Kaia's subtle color and pattern changes when lit and make it a unique work of art in its own right. We've spent thousands of hours developing an enclosure unlike anything we've ever seen before. Here is some insight into our process.
Where We Are Now
Kaia has been in the works for 3 years now – and we’re almost done. We have working hardware, a working Analytics Engine, and a beautiful enclosure. We are currently running series of tests with alpha users to make sure we have the experience of Kaia just right, and will be continuing to refine development throughout the year.
The Makefuturestuff Team
We are a team of professional front and back end developers, electrical engineers, and user experience designers with multiple advanced degrees and decades of experience across industries, including development for Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about us here.
Risks and challenges
Does Air Quality Matter?
One of our biggest risks is whether an air quality product will sell. No one has truly cracked the market quite yet. Kickstarter is the best platform to test whether we have the secret sauce in our mission and vision in this space. What we do know is: the sheer volume of studies on the effects of air quality on health, both mental and physical, are staggering. We've collected a selection of research that very clearly demonstrates the severity of the problem, even in clean cities across the world. Currently, we have 10 alpha units in operation that provide us with concrete feedback from our alpha users. We have been iterating to constantly improve and perfect the app.
With no moving parts, the complexity of the main hardware engineering, manufacturing, and assembly is relatively low, despite the unique swirl design. We have team members who have managed the manufacture, design, and testing from smartphones to sporting goods so we are confident in our engineering knowledge, connections, and experience. We have identified manufacturers within the US that we are targeting for our minimum order quantities of 1000 units - hence our high funding goal. We want to deliver a successful Kickstarter and delight our backers and the world.
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Funding period
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